Fixed book prices in Mexico: what self-publishers need to know
Mexico's fixed book price law covers printed books and ebooks. Here is what it asks of you as the publisher, and what KDP asks.
The facts
- The rule
- Whoever publishes or imports a book in Mexico sets its retail price freely and registers it, with the ISBN and the printing or import date, in the Ministry of Culture's public database before it goes on sale. Sellers then charge exactly that price for 36 months from the printing or reprint date in the colophon; the state, libraries and schools buying for their own use are exempt. Ebooks count as books: while the printed edition has its single price, the ebook is held to the same rules.
- Printed books
- Covered
- Ebooks
- Covered
- Languages
- Books in any language
- Amazon stores selling there
- Amazon.com.mx
- What KDP asks
- Where a fixed book price law applies, KDP asks you to set the same list price at every retailer, and to tell the authorities where the law requires it.
Other countries
Fixed book price laws in every country we know.
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Checked on 1 November 2026 against Ley de Fomento para la Lectura y el Libro, as amended on 29 November 2023, KDP, Price your book. Stores, agencies and laws change their rules: their own pages have the final word.